Saudis Contribute

PEOPLE

October 6, 1987

Saudi Arabia plans to donate $5 million to a camp founded by actor Paul Newman for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, announced the intended donation to The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in northeastern Connecticut at a press conference in Washington, D.C. Monday.

``We share the belief that all have the responsibility to provide for the less fortunate,`` Bandar said. ``What greater reward can we have than to serve humanity?``

PRIZE CANDIDATES

President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, President Raul Alfonsin of Argentina and the World Health Organization are among 93 candidates for the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize next week, a Nobel committee spokesman said Monday.

Jakob Sverdup, the Norwegian Nobel Committee`s permanent secretary, told The Associated Press that the group had its final meeting on Monday to decide this year`s peace prize recipient.

The winner will be announced at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13. The five other Nobel prizes are announced in Stockholm, Sweden.

Aquino is known to have been nominated for heading a largely non-violent transition of power and avoiding civil war in her country.

ROYALTY IN TOWN

Japan`s next emperor, Crown Prince Akihito, arrived in Washington on Monday on the second leg of a weeklong U.S. visit that will include dinner with President Reagan at the White House and tennis with Vice President George Bush.

Akihito, 53, and his wife, Crown Princess Michiko, 52, were met by Secretary of State George Shultz under clear autumn skies at Andrews Air Force Base, where they arrived following a weekend tour of historic sites in Boston.

JUST A SHAKE

New York Mayor Ed Koch and millionaire developer Donald Trump called a cease-fire in their feud but it was a very uneasy one and very brief -- just long enough for a handshake. They appeared together outside City Hall to kick off a citywide celebration of Israel`s 40th anniversary but the two of them, standing inches apart and avoiding eye contact, stole the show.

BRIEFLY SPEAKING

-- One year after his local television talk show was canceled to make way for Oprah Winfrey, veteran broadcaster Tom Snyder is beginning a new stint as host of a radio call-in show on KABC.

``Me. That`s the only thing that will make it different from other talk shows,`` Snyder said. ``What makes Johnny Carson different? Or Ted Koppel?``

-- The vanquished Gary Hart is finding there are certain advantages to being a non-candidate, such as the freedom to speak his mind. Hart spoke in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Sunday and turned sports prognosticator, predicting that the Detroit Tigers would beat the Minnesota Twins in the American League Playoffs. ``I`m free to say things like that now that I`m not a candidate,`` Hart said.

-- Princess Michela Rocco Di Torrepadula was chosen as the new Miss Italy, the second in a month after the first winner was discovered to be a ``Mrs.`` and a mother, and disqualified. Miss Rocco Di Torrepadula, 17, who plays the flute, has a brown belt in karate and wants to be an actress, was heavily favored after model Mirka Viola, 19, was dethroned.

Judges had not been aware that Miss Viola was married and had a 2-year-old son when they named her Miss Italy. She did not attend Sunday`s ceremony.